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Renato Sala AHMED YASAWI: LIFE, WORDS and SIGNIFICANCE in the KAZAKH CULTURE IRSTI Renato Sala Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan, Almaty, e-mail: ispkz@yahoo.com , www.lgakz.org AHMED YASAWI: LIFE, WORDS AND SIGNIFICANCE IN THE KAZAKH CULTURE The article starts analyzing the spiritual aspects of the culture of the Kazakh people, in particular the role played by funerary rituals, pilgrimages, shamanic practices, Islam and Sufism. It proceeds with an introduction to the life, teachings and words of the Sufi master Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (Sayram 1093 AD, Turkestan 1166 AD), underlining the importance, for the Kazakh culture as well as for the entire world, of the Yasawi self-immurement in an underground cell and of the poems (Divan-i Hikmet) transmitted from down there. Finally are analyzed the existing versions of the Divan-i Hikmet, in particular the structure and contents of the 49 hikmet of the Turkestan manuscript of which, as conclusion, is provided a selec- tion of verses translated in English language. Key words: Ahmed Yasawi, Divan-i Hikmet, Central Asian Sufi orders, Kazakh culture Ренато Сала Әл-Фараби атындағы Қазақ ұлттық университетінің геоэкологиялық зерттеулер зертханасы, Қазақстан, Италия, Алматы, e-mail: ispkz@yahoo.com, www.lgakz.org Ахмет Ясауи: өмірі, сөздері және оның қазақ мәдениетіндегі маңызы Мақалада қазақ халқы мәдениетінің рухани аспектілері, соның ішінде жерлеу рәсімі, қажылық, шамандық наным-сенім, ислам мен сопылық істері қарастырылған. Бұл жұмыста қазақ халқының байырғы мәдениетінің тарихында айрықша орны бар ұлы ақын, сопылық поэзияның негізін салушы, ұлы ойшыл, діни қайраткер Қожа Ахмет Яссауидің (1093, Сайрам -1166, Түркістан), соның ішінде қазақ мәдениеті үшін, бүкіл дүние жүзі үшін оның қалдырған еңбектерінің маңыздылығы жазылған. Өзінің жеке қалауымен жерасты өмір сүріп, сол жерде жазған «Диуани хикмет» жинақ өлеңдері бүгінгі күні бізге жеткен. Қорытындылай келе, «Диуани Хикметтің» қолданыстағы нұсқалары, әсіресе Түркістан қолжазбасындағы 49 хикметтің құрылымы мен мазмұны талданып, оның қорытындысы ретінде ағылшын тіліне аударылған өлеңдерінен үзінді келтіріледі. Түйін сөздер: Ахмет Яссауи, Диуани хикмет, Орта Азиядағы суфизм діндері, қазақ мәдениеті Ренато Сала Международная Лаборатория геоархеологии, Казахский национальный университет имени аль-Фараби, Казахстан-Италия Алматы, e-mail: ispkz@yahoo.com, www.lgakz.org Ахмед Ясави: жизнь, слова и значение в казахской культуре В статье анализируются духовные аспекты культуры казахского народа, в частности роль погребальных ритуалов, паломничества, шаманской практики, ислам и суфизм. Работа включает в себя о жизни, учениях и словах суфийского мастера Ходжа Ахмет Яссауи (Сайрам 1093 г. н.э., Туркестан 1166 г.) подчеркивая важность как для казахской культуры, так и для всего мира. По его собственной воле Яссауи поселился в подземной камере и его стихи (Диван-и Хикмет) были переданы оттуда. В заключение, анализируются существующие версии Диван-и Хикмет, в частности структура и содержание 49 хикмет туркестанской рукописи, из которых, как вывод, предоставляется отрывок из стихов, переведенных на английский язык. Ключевые слова: Ахмет Яссауи, Диван-и Хикмет, суфийское духовенство в Центральной Азии, казахская культура © 2018 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Ahmed Yasawi: life, words and significance in the kazakh culture 1 – Shamanism, religious rituals, believes and whole spiritual needs, so that it operates within spiritual references in the Kazakh culture1 wider religious conceptions with which tries to be compatible and by which is even inspired. In Kazakhstan, in the same way the solidarity Among the Turko-Mongol peoples of Central groups put themselves as the center of the social Asia and Mongolia, starting from 3-4 millennia life and don’t renounce easily to the pretension of ago, spirituality manifests in the form of a natural territorial power at local and national levels, so religiosity called Tengrism, of which the main the patriarchal family and clans always keep under symbolic characteristic is the bipolarity Tengri- control religious creeds and practices. Umai (‘sky-earth’) with the two poles connected by Religious performances in Kazakhstan develop the cosmic tree of the organic life (baiterek). It finds in answer to the practical needs and social interactions analogues among all Siberian peoples, in the Korean of the daily life (healing, fertility, greetings, respect, Muism, in the Chinese Taoism and in the Japanese hospitality, thanksgiving, birthdays, marriages, Shinto. funerals, festivals and calendar events), ending up The main cultic practices are two and deeply by promoting tribal and national affiliations more related: pilgrimages and funerary rituals. Two are political than religious. This character explains why also their objects and rituals: natural entities and Kazakhstan never saw during history the rise of an ancestors, celebrated by prayers made of simple independent code of religious precepts, compulsory formulas and by sheep sacrifices with collective religious creeds and independent clergy, in spite of banquet. the strong attempts in that direction made during the 1.2 – Pilgrimages XVIII-XIX centuries by the Russian colonization. Pilgrimages are oriented towards special natural The few necessary rituals never develop beyond places, mainly springs, hills and mausoleums their pragmatic use: this is true for local pre-Islamic built on tombs or cenotaphs (empty tombs) of shamanic practices as well as for Islamic creeds and illustrious human personages. Actually the most rituals. popular destinations, the ones provided with 1.1 – Shamanism lodging facilities, are sites hosting both healing Shamanism is a term referring to a system springs (or wells) and mausoleums, witnessing the of practices and techniques of religious ecstasy interconnection of natural and funerary cults, the engendered in the context of small human synchronic worship of living and dead elements. communities in order to establish harmony and This is the case of several pilgrim sites, like the fertility within human, animal, vegetal and cosmic Kazigurt mountain of South KZ, which represents cycles. It consists in investing a most sensitive a microcosm of natural, mythical and historical person, a shaman (bakshi), with the task of getting events that all together became object of worship. possessed by spirits in order to manage the relation The place is inserted in a landscape underpinned between humans and the invisible world, in particular by springs and sheep-shaped stones (koytas) and for physical thaumaturgy, dispelling bad spirits, ‘covered’ by a thick layer of legends of different appealing to ancestors, foreseeing the future, calling epochs: it is referred as the cradle of Ana and Ata, for rain (tasattyk), favoring communal integration the forbearers of the human race, or as a kind of and providing theatrical support in festivals and mount Ararat, and hosts the mausoleum of Akbura- ceremonies (toys). These tasks are pursued in specific Ata, a Zoroastrian saint who healed people and spaces and times by the bakshi and few helpers taught monotheism. through the manipulation of elements and gestures, On pilgrimage sites is ordinarily performed the onomatopoeic sounds, words, songs, music, dances, sacrifice of a sheep or, in important occasions, of of which the knowledge is transmitted person to a horse, accompanied with prayers and collective person from an unknown past. Today in most of banquet. One-day pilgrimages are done to just one the world shamanist practices are incorporated in place by entire families, occasionally accompanied the ritual context of a soteriological religion or in by a Moslem cleric (mullah). Long pilgrimages are the field of pseudo-medical science; also in modern done during the summer season by individual itinerant Kazakhstan they are much reduced but still in vogue pilgrims (palomnik) across several mausoleums and respected and, of course, merged within newly mainly of South and West Kazakhstan. introduced Islamic formulas. Today enveloped in the Islamic frame, with Such practical technique for solving specific shamans promoted to dervishes (Muslim itinerant problems, made of concrete actions more than of mendicants), the pre-Islamic cults of nature and words and conceptualizations, doesn’t cover the ancestors are still very alive and interactive, 116 Хабаршы. Тарих сериясы. №2 (89). 2018 Renato Sala connecting springs and landforms with mythical and legends3 but by now deprived of bones: the bones of historical beings. Bifatima will be most probably the first. Cults are imbedded in poetic legends and It is difficult saying when these nature and dedicated, in order of importance, to: ancestor cults started developing: most probably – saints associated with the first spread of Islam they are the last manifestation of an uninterrupted in Arabia: Mukhammad the prophet, his daughter Stone Age tradition that underwent only secondary Fatima; changes. Certainly the centrality of the sheep – Sufi saints protagonists of the spread of Islam in funerary rituals, sacrifices and petroglyph in the Central Asian deserts and steppes: Baba-Ata, representations characterizes the local cultures all Arystanbab, Ahmed Yasawi, Ismail-Ata, Sunak- along the last 3000 years, from the Early Iron age Ata, etc.; to now. Deep historical roots can be suspected in – mythical forefathers of some tribes, like the several Kazakh customs, suggesting a consideration couple Baidabek-Ata and Domalak-Ana2, protectors of primary importance: the basic spirituality of the of the great juz against the
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